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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 246, 16 September 1932, Page 6

Tlie National Daffodil Society, at its annual meeting at Hamilton this week, decided that the request of the Palmerston North Horticultural Society to hold the 1933 National Show be granted.

“Business is good with me; I’ve had a record month,’’ said a Wellington architect yesterday. He also stated that lie had been in conversation with a builder who had just sent in his fourteenth tender for the past month. The executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, at a meeting held in 'Wellington yesterday, decided that a deputation wait upon the Primo Minister to protest against several activities of the Railways Department which interfere with private enterprise.

“We have to pay a tremendous price for our politics, ’ remarked Mr A. P. Cross, an English manufacturer, who is at present on a tour of New Zealand, to an Otago Daily Times reporter. “If we could eliminate politics for the next two years 1 am convinced that the world would regain its economic basis.” Concern with the detrimental effect upon private shingle pit proprietors of privileged trading in shingle by the Prisons Department was expressed by the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at its meeting in Wellington yesterday, and a sub-com-mittee was "appointed to confer with the Controller-General of Prisons on the subject. “Your Worship,” asked woman accused of Mr E. Ix. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court at Auckland, •‘would you think of the witness against me that he could ever tell a lie? It was stated in evidence that the witness had been previously convicted for dishonesty. “Do not ask me,” the Magistrate replied. “I gave up long ago trying to tell whether a man would steal or not, or tell a lie.” Mr W. K. Morris, Oakura, Taranaki, made the interesting discovery on his farm the other day of a large piece of a marine mine. Some years ago a German mine cast adrift by the raider Wolf came ashore at Oakura, and an expert was sent from Wellington to explode it. After the explosion not a sign of the mine itself could be found. While cleaning up some gorse over half a mile away from the spot Mr Morris found a large section of the case. Housewives. —Have you ever made these little nut loaves ? They are very appetising._ We have just landed a large shipment of nut loaf tins. Each tin makes a half pound loaf. They are collapsible, thereby releasing the loaf without any breakages. They cook beautifully, being airtight when assembled. Don't miss getting one of these nut loaf tins now, they are very reasonable. Our price is 9d each, procurable only at Collinson and Son, Ltd.—Advt.

“Out of 80,000 farmers in New Zealand, 47,000 are Crown tenants,” said Mr It. AV. AYightman, speaking at a meeting of Ashburton Crown tenants. About 1000 of them were in the Ashburton County, he continued.

It has been discovered that 27 of the street names in AA'aimairi are borne by other streets in and about Christchurch —in some cases four or five times. The AVaimairi County Council is arranging new names for these 27 streets.

With the further opening out of the hull of tire Kaponga, which lies a wreck on the northern breakwater at tho entrance to tho Grey River, her cargo of coal is being washed ashore. Tho residents of Cobden are gathering tho coal as it is washed upon the beach.

“It is estimated that tho highways of tho Dominion are deteriorating at the rate of £200,000 a year,” said Mr M. H. AVynyard, motorists’ representative on the Main Highways Board, at a meeting of the Auckland Automobile Association, when advice was received from the Main Highways Board that it was nob in a position to carry out metalliug work on the GisborneAA'a.iroa, via Hangaroa, main highway. A Press Association telegram from Blenheim states that the Grovetown Hotel of 14 rooms, owned and occupied by Mr Ben Dooley, was totally, destroyed by fire this morning with the contents. The occupants escaped in their night attire. The origin of the outbreak is unknown. The insurance on the building is not. available. Tho furniture was insured for £2OO, the personal effects for £IOO and the bar stocks for £IOO.

Agreeing that a reduction in the number of local bodies in New Zealand was one of the most pressing necessities of the country, the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce decided at its meeting hi Wellington yesterday to ask the Prime Minister and the Minister of Internal Affairs to receive a deputation urging the immediate appointment of a commission to inquire into the whole system of local body administration. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that Air David Uttley Strang, B.Sc., has been nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship by tho Otago University Professorial Board. The nominee is now doing science research under a Smeaton Scholarship and is a candidate for the Al. Sc. degree and the medical intermediate. He lias his university blue at Rugby and was selected as a memlier of the New Zealand University Rugby team. He is vicepresident of the Students’ Association.